Title: Re: umbil cord bld merchandising.
on 5/3/02 3:29 PM, Mary Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently received a flyer from Cryosite cord blood service with my ACMI News/journal. The company is subtly using midwives to market their service, the text reinforcing in our minds that the blood should be stored for the child's future use. Maybe we should be reinforcing that the blood belongs to the baby at birth and was put there for a really good reason...strengthening the immune system. Maybe if the baby receives its birthrite in the minutes following birth, it will not need it later.
mary you beat me to it but I feel the same way as you and was quite annoyed that this came through the ACMI. Yes we need to be able to inform parents who will ask about this due to its constant exposure in the media but i would like to see the ACMI produce an information sheet with the advantages of letting the baby have as much of this precious stuff as it can at birth and maybe as you say the likelihood of needing it later would decrease. Has anyone researched that.
Alana (ACMI) what was the incentive for ACMI to send this out for cryosite. I hope it was financial compensation and if so I think members should be told this with the mail out.
Andrea Quanchi
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